＄94-03-22-07-1-1
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＠A：Sparrow
Can I get you some tea!? How about a sweet bean manjyu!? Chirp chirp, I'll sing you a song! And give you a shoulder rub!
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＠C：Sparrow
I can't tell you how grateful we are, [&Mr.:Ms.] [%1]! Anything you want, cheep, it's yours!
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？1：This is the most disproportionate reward I've ever received for anything.
？2：These sparrows are really...insistent.

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＠Mash
Th-they are being kind of intense with their hospitality, aren't they...
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＠Sparrow
This isn't just for saving us from that awful bird, chirp! We are also grateful to you for gathering so much Bounty of the Sparrow.
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＠Mash
...? Oh, now that you mention it, after[sr]we chop wood, or clean a guest room...
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＠Mash
...or do some yardwork,[sr]or chase off demonic monkeys...
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＠Kojirou
Indeed, I was wondering for myself[sr]what this “Bounty of the Sparrow” might be.
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＠Sparrow
Chirp chirp, when did you get here, Sasaki!?[sr]Do you know each other?
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＠Fou
Fo, kyu kyu kyu fou.[wt 0.5][charaFace I 0][charaFadein I 0.2 0,-100][sr]Ki kyuu kyu, fo fou fou.
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？1：We're just as surprised as you!
？2：He's drinking tea like he's been here all along!

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＠Kojirou
Come now, you do not mind, do you, [&Lord:Lady] [%1]? We have both wandered here from Chaldea, after all.
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＠Kojirou
Of course, as an aimless vagrant, my circumstances differ considerably from yours, but never mind that.
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＠Kojirou
Tell me, sparrows, what is this[sr]Bounty of the Sparrow of which you speak of?
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＠D：Sparrow
Chirp! We sparrows have gratitude too,[sr]just like our guests.
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＠D：Sparrow
And when it changes from something vague and metaphysical to something tangible, we call it our “bounty”, chirp.
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＠D：Sparrow
Bounty of the Sparrow accumulates like crazy, chirp,[sr]whenever you do one of our jobs for us.
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＠Mash
It does?
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＠D：Sparrow
It does, chirp. So today, we're paying you back for all your help. Think of it like a point card that you've managed to fill up with stamps.
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？1：That's...an interesting way to put it...

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＠Mash
Now I see.[sr]Thank you for explaining it so clearly.
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＠Mash
In fact...I'm kind of surprised by how clear it was.
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＠Mash
Most of the other sparrows are more...
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？2：You're very chatty, aren't you?

？！

＠D：Sparrow
Very true, chirp. I'm the fastest thinker[sr]of all the Ten Sparrows, chirp.
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＠D：Sparrow
My name's Gokan. Cheep cheep,[sr]I'm the treasurer of the Enma-tei.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
The other sparrows go by Shinkou, Shokou, Soutei, Henjou, Taizan, Byoudou, Toshi, Godou-Tenrin...
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Each of them has individual names[sr]given to them by their lords, chirp.
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＠Mash
Wait...aren't these the names of the Ten Kings, who act as the judges of hell in the Buddhist underworld?
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＠Mash
Are you and the other sparrows their sons?
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
No, just their attendants, chirp. Although Madam Beni is the daughter of Great King Enma.
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？1：Great King Enma...?
？2：Wait, THAT Great King Enma!?

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＠Kojirou
This is a surprise. They say that Great King Enma[sr]is none other than the supreme judge of all of hell.
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＠Kojirou
That he sentences the dead to different hells depending on the severity of their sins in life...
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＠Kojirou
...and that he pulls out the tongues of any sinner who lies to try and escape their punishment.
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＠Kojirou
In Buddhist tradition, he is known as “Yamaten" or "the first dead,” and that the Buddha himself made him a god and put him in charge of hell...
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＠Kojirou
...but I am told that the ten king system developed among ordinary people when Buddhism was brought over from the continent.
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＠Kojirou
In which case, these sparrows must be referring to the concept of hell that took root in Japan at the same time Buddhism did.
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＠Kojirou
In turn, Lady Beni-Enma lies at the crossroads between that concept of hell...
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＠Kojirou
...and how it is commonly envisioned in folklore.[sr]Am I correct?
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
You catch on pretty quick for a Sasaki, chirp.[sr]About half right, I'd say.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Madam Beni's birth is a little[sr]more complicated, chirp.
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＠Kojirou
I see. Complicated how, chirp?
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Madam Beni used to be human, chirp.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
She was an apprentice prostitute who ran from her lodgings and captors, and died after she wandered into a mayoiga, chirp.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
But before she died, she proved to be a great[sr]source of consolation for that mayoiga, chirp.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
As a result, instead of being tried as a sinner, she ended up working for Datsue-ba at the Sanzu River.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Chirp. Unfortunately for her, Datsue-ba was stingy as[line 2]er, something of a cheapskate, chirp.
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＠Datsue-ba (Artist's Rendering)
“If you're going to work here, you need to become[sr]my daughter. That way, I won't have to pay you.”
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＠Sparrow
Even the other demons of hell thought that adopting a child just to save a few coins was going too far, chirp. Especially since she had already been sold and abused for money when she was alive.
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＠Sparrow
Even today, some people think Datsue-ba inadvertently coined the Japanese for “money-grubber.”
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？1：Who's Datsue-ba?

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＠Kojirou
In Buddhist tradition, it is said that the dead must cross the Sanzu River before they can receive Great King Enma's judgment.
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＠Kojirou
To do that, they must offer up their clothes[sr]to pay a ferryman to carry them across.
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＠Kojirou
Datsue-ba is the oni tasked with collecting this fare by stripping the dead of their clothes.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Can you imagine an old lady about your size? They say she's been in hell longer than Great King Enma, chirp.
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？2：(So Beni-Enma's quick-draw was meant to cut off clothes? ...Umm...)

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＠Mash
You know who this Datsue-ba person is, Senpai?
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＠Kojirou
Oho. I can see from your expression that you are imagining something less than pleasant.
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＠Kojirou
Hahaha, a sword that only cuts clothes, leaving the wearer unharmed, would be an unparalleled accomplishment.
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＠Kojirou
If it existed, it would be a true Mystic Sword!
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Anyway, even though Datsue-ba was a nasty piece of work, Madam Beni still served her faithfully, chirp.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Eventually, Great King Enma took pity on her,[sr]chirp, and officially adopted her himself.
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＠Mash
Th-that's wonderful! It's like something[sr]straight out of a fairy tale...!
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Well, Great King Enma is married to Datsue-ba, so it mostly amounted to formalizing an agreement, chirp.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
So in the end, Madam Beni really learned her sword-drawing from Great King Enma, chirp.[sr]She's not called “Tongue-Cut” for nothing!
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Great King Enma then went on to entrust Madam Beni with the mayoiga, chirp chirp, which led to opening the Enma-tei here on Earth.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Chirp, it's the best little inn in all the realms for injured gods to heal their wounds, and for humans lost in the mountains to find salvation!
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＠Kojirou
I see. Now I finally understand.
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＠Kojirou
So the tale of the Sparrow Inn was actually about the Enma-tei all along.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
I'm not sure which came first, chirp.[sr]Time passes differently between hell and the surface.
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＠Mash
I've read about these sort of “mayoiga” before. It's a Japanese legend about a mysterious deserted house.
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＠Mash
In modern times, a very famous Japanese author wrote about mayoiga for his stories.
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＠Mash
The folklore says that the house is strewn with treasure everywhere you look, and that its dining table is covered in mouthwatering delicacies.
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＠Mash
The people that wind up there find it suspicious that the house is deserted, but are inevitably unable to resist the luxuries they see all around them.
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＠Mash
And once they try to take the treasure or eat the food, they're trapped in the house and end up dying.
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＠Kojirou
Indeed. But as I recall, if a person is able to control their desires, they will be blessed by the house and permitted to return to the human world with a great many gifts.
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＠Mash
That's right. The mayoiga is meant to test human desire, much like Great King Enma's judgment...
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＠Mash
But the Enma-tei doesn't have anything like that.[sr]It's exactly like the Sparrow Inn from the story.
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＠Mash
That inn has no need to test anyone,[sr]because only good people are able to come here.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
That's right, chirp. The Enma-tei is the result of the mayoiga being reborn into the Sparrow Inn.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Chirp, as its proprietress,[sr]Madam Beni is a sparrow hero of Japanese folklore.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
She even served as the model for all nonhuman creatures who help people in the mountains, like in the Uji Shui Monogatari, chirp.
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＠Kojirou
There are a few famous tales of old men who met with grim ends for their greed, or were rewarded for their virtue.
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＠Kojirou
Kobutori Jiisan, Hanasaka Jiisan...and in particular, Tsuzurano Jiisan, who saved a sparrow's life.
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＠Kojirou
If Madam Beni-Enma is the common link between the tales of the Three Old Men Collection, I can understand why you hold her in such reverence.
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＠Kojirou
In essence, she is living proof of otogi-banashi[line 2]what some might call Japanese nursery rhymes.[sr]Do I have that right?
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Chirp chirp, Three Old Men Collection?[sr]First I'm hearing of these, chirp.
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＠Kojirou
Hahaha, my apologies. I thought it easier to go by their colloquial name. Still, they are all the same in the end, are they not?
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
...Well yeah, I guess, chirp. See, this is exactly why we can't let our guard down around a Sasaki.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Anyway, that's all we can tell you, chirp.[sr]Besides, this went on a lot longer than we meant it to.
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＠Sparrow (Gokan)
Chirp, we're going to get back to work now.[sr]Oh, and I won't tell Madam Beni we talked about this.
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＠Mash
...So Beni-Enma wasn't a hero when she was alive then. She only became a Heroic Spirit after she died...
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＠Mash
Still, at least we know a little more about her.[sr]She is such an amazing proprietress I respect her even more now!
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？1：You said it!

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＠Kojirou
Indeed, this has been illuminating for myself as well.[sr]At any rate, I think I shall return to my room.
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＠Kojirou
If you should ever need my help, come and see me.[sr]I will gladly repay you for this tea.
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